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RICHARD STRAUSS
(1864-1949)
Salome
114:19
Opera in one act
Libretto by the composer after Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of Oscar Wilde's play of the same name
English translation of the German by Tom Hammond
COMPACT DISC ONE
Scene One
1.
'How fair the royal Princess Salome looks tonight'
2:43
Narraboth, Page, First Soldier, Second Soldier
2.
'After me shall come another'
2:41
Jokanaan, Second Soldieer, First Soldier, Cappadocian, Naarraboth, Page
Scene Two
3.
'I will not stay there. I cannot stay there'
2:09
Salome, Page, Jokanaan
4.
'Who spoke then, who was that calling out?'
3:51
Salome, Second Soldier, Narraboth, Slave, First Soldier, Jokanaan, Page
5.
'You will do this for me, Narraboth'
3:21
Salome, Narraboth
Scene Three
6.
'Where is he, he, whose sins are now without number?'
5:07
Jokanaan, Salome, Narraboth
7.
'He is terrible'
4:54
Salome, Narraboth, Jokanaan
8.
'Jokanaan! I am in love with your pale flesh, Jokanaan!'
2:59
9.
'I'm enamoured of your hair, Jokanaan'
2:43
Salome, Jokanaan
10.
'It's your mouth that I desire, Jokanaan'
11:08
Salome, Jokanaan, Narraboth
Scene Four
11.
'Where is Salome?'
4:06
Herod, Herodias, First Soldier
12.
'Salome, come drink wine with me'
2:47
Herod, Salome, Herodias
13.
'See, the tiem is upon us'
3:38
Jokanaan, Herodias, Herod, Jews, First Nazarene
14.
'Brothers, they day is near us, the day of the Lord'
2:51
Jokanaan, Herod, First Nazarene, First Jew, Second Nazarene, Herodias
15.
'Men shall soon rebel against this dissolute woman'
2:12
Jokanaan, Herodias, Herod
16.
'Dance for me, Salome'
4:25
Hrod, Herodias, Salome, Jokanaan
61:39
COMPACT DISC TWO
Scene Four, continued
1.
Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils
9:30
2.
'Ah, heavenly! Wonderful, woonderful!'
7:27
Herod, Salome, Herodias
3.
'Salome, just think what you're doing'
3:13
Herod, Salome, Jews
4.
'Gie me the head of Jokanaan!'
2:12
Salome, Herod, Herodias
5.
'I hear no noise from below there'
2:36
6.
'Ah! You would not let me kiss your mouth, Jokanaan!'
6:47
7.
'Your body was an ivory column'
5:32
Salome
8.
'You have an evil monster for a daughter'
5:29
Herod, Herodias, Salome
9.
Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils (concert version)
9:37
52:40
Solo:John Graham-Hall tenor - Herod Antipas
Solo: John Wegner baritone - Jokanaan
Solo: Andrew Rees tenor - Narraboth
Solo: Rebecca de Pont Davies mezzo-soprano - Herodias's page
Solo: Anton Rich tenor - First Jew
Solo: Wynne Evans tenor - Second Jew
Solo:Colin Judson tenor - Third Jew
Solo: Alasdair Elliott tenor - Fourth Jew
Solo: Jeremy White bass - Fifth Jew
Solo: Michael Druiett bass - First Nazarene
Solo:Robert Parry tenor - Second Nazarene
Solo: Graeme Broadbent bass - First Soldier
Solo: Alan Ewing bass - Second Soldier
Solo: Roger Begley bass - Cappadocian
Solo:Gerald Strainer tenor - Slave
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor:Sir Charles Mackerras
16-18 and 20-22 December 2007
Notes
RICHARD STRAUSS: SALOME
Salome is the latest release on the Chandos Opera in English label with Sir Charles Mackerras conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra and Susan Bullock in the title role. Richard Strauss is a composer for whom Sir Charles has deep affection. He explains: ‘I’m just amazed that he could have written it. Every page has something that hadn’t been done before, not even by Wagner. Bitonality, whole tone scales, everything! Endlessly varying leitmotifs so that they take on different meaning – remarkable, and such a lesson in the use of the orchestra. It’s just superb… even if you have not heard a note of Strauss before you will be swept along by the power of the music.’ Susan Bullock has sung the role of Salome in concert and her Elektra, incidentally a role she will be performing at the Royal Opera House in November this year, has brought her international acclaim.
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Reviews
Charles Mackerras does total justice to every episode of full-out, rapturous lyricism, but the performance also boasts just about enough savage intensity to satisfy those who enjoy the work only for its most febrile moments. Fortunately Mackerras’s notably elegant approach keeps something in reserve, with the build-up of tension in each scene always expertly judged… Mackerras coaxes from the Philharmonia a truly splendid cushion of sound to support the singers.
International Record Review
Charles Mackerras is not usually mentioned when outstanding Strauss conductors are considered. But as this latest addition to Chandos’ Opera in English series shows, he is an outstanding Straussian, and it’s the Philharmonia’s gorgeously vivid playing of it, that makes this so memorable. That’s not to down grade any of the singers, who all get Tom Hammond’s no-nonsense English text across with enviable clarity
The Guardian
The drama of this great opera is faithfully projected in this Peter Moores Opera in English recording by the inspired conducting of Sir Charles Mackerras and the Philharmonia, the excellent cast and the vivid Chandos sound. Above all it is good to have Susan Bullock in one of the major Strauss roles.
The Sunday Telegraph
If it were only for the orchestra alone, this would now be the Salome of choice: never relentlessly feral but ineffably paced towards shocking climaxes, diaphanously clear, full of expressive orchestral solos (first violin especially) and naturally balanced in a recording which captures outlandish percussion touches like the tam-tam and timpani struck with triangle stick. One happily sits through this most sensuous of dances again when it follows the opera as an extra with its concert ending.
BBC Music Magazine
If recording in Chandos’s Opera in English series were at first regarded as ‘poor cousins’ to more starry original-language versions, that view certainly no longer obtains. Here a great cast, superb conducting and outstanding playing make for a recording that can stand comparison with any on the market.
Classic FM Magazine
Alongside Bullock’s spellbinding and radiant Salome, the other most impressive protagonists in this performance are the Philharmonia Orchestra and Charles Mackerras.
The Telegraph
Very good versio, with nice voice.
Unfortunatly, english version whereas original is in german
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